About us

Director's Welcome

Thank you for the wonderful welcome.

Director

Mr. Phal Vandy

Dear Friends,

Thank you for the wonderful welcome.

It has been an extraordinary year, full of challenges but also great perspectives for the future. The team in Cambodia – with support from across the globe – has worked very hard in overcoming the challenges and taken great strides in extending the reach of our programmes to over 2,000 families in the past calendar year through various construction interventions. I must commend all my colleagues here for the incredible effort they have put to respond to the growing need for housing in the aftermath of disaster and the changing political and economic landscape. Now more than ever is Cambodia in need of our support to address housing problems.

As we enter 2015, Habitat for Humanity Cambodia will continue to build community impact helping vulnerable and homeless families to improve their housing conditions and transform their neighborhoods through improved access to clean water, sanitation or basic services. We will also invest more in building sector and societal impact, scaling up our successful innovative model where we partner with the private sector and government on improving the functioning of the housing market as a whole, making it work for the poor.

In all our activities we will continue to reach out to the extremely vulnerable individuals, marginalized groups and people living with disabilities. By strengthening our programming, we aim to be bolder and wiser, progressively serving the 600,000 families living in sub-standard housing and in delivering our commitment to involve our home partners in fulfilling their right to sustainable development.

We are committed to building impact within individuals, families and communities that we serve, impact within our government and non-government partners, impact within our local and international volunteers and impact within our donors.

Of course, we also could not continue to assist Cambodia without the dedicated support of our donors, and we are grateful for your continued encouragement.

I have spent the past two months appreciating our work and I am excited about the potential of bringing our work to the next level. The beneficiaries I have met shared how Habitat for Humanity Cambodia’s work has made a big difference in their lives. This alone makes me optimistic for 2015!

It is a dynamic time to be in Cambodia, with many difficulties but also great opportunity to improve and become more open to positive change to maintain our relevance. As the new Country Director for Habitat for Humanity Cambodia, I wish to extend my deep thanks for your support, and I look forward to strengthening our network. There are so many great things we can accomplish together, so may you continue this mission of building impact with us!

Kif Nguyen

Our Vision

A world where everyone has a decent place to live.

Our Mission

Seeking to put God’s love into action, Habitat for Humanity brings people together to build homes, communities and hope.

Core Values

Humility

We are part of something bigger than ourselves.

Courage

We do what’s right, even when it is difficult or unpopular.

Accountability

We take personal responsibility for Habitat’s mission.

5 Guiding Principles

01

Demonstrate the loveof Jesus Christ

We undertake our work to demonstrate the love and teachings of Jesus, acting in all ways in accord with the belief that God’s love and grace abound for all, and that we must be “hands and feet” of that love and grace in our world. We believe that, through faith, the miniscule can be multiplied to accomplish the magnificent, and that, in faith, respectful relationships can grow among all people.

02

Focus on Shelter

We have chosen, as our means of manifesting God’s love, to create opportunities for all people to live in decent, durable shelter. We put faith into action by helping to build, renovate or preserve homes, and by partnering with others to accelerate and broaden access to affordable housing as a foundation for breaking the cycle of poverty.

03

Advocate for affordable housing

In response to the prophet Micah’s call to do justice, to love mercy and to walk humbly with God, we promote decent, affordable housing for all, and we support the global community’s commitment to housing as a basic human right. We will advocate for just and fair housing policy to eliminate the constraints that contribute to poverty housing. And, in all of our work, we will seek to put shelter on hearts and minds in such powerful ways that poverty housing becomes socially, politically and religiously unacceptable.

04

Promote dignity and hope

We believe that no one lives in dignity until everyone can live in dignity. We believe that every person has something to contribute and something to gain from creating communities in which all people have decent, affordable places to live. We believe that dignity and hope are best achieved through equitable, accountable partnerships.

05

Support sustainable and transformation development

We view our work as successful when it transforms lives and promotes positive and lasting social, economic and spiritual change within a community; when it is based on mutual trust and fully shared accomplishment; and when it demonstrates responsible stewardship of all resources entrusted to us.